This best-selling book introduces a broad audience including scientists and engineers working in a variety of fields as well as mathematicians from other subspecialties to one of the most active new areas of applied mathematics and the story of its discovery and development. Organized in "hypertext fashion," the book tells a story of scientific discovery with separate brief entries for technical terms and explicit appendices in a section called "Beyond Plain English."
- ISBN10 1568810725
- ISBN13 9781568810720
- Publish Date 30 May 1998 (first published 3 April 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint A K Peters
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English